Welcome to Elizabeth Park
Elizabeth Park is on the national register of historic places. Elizabeth Park offers just over one hundred acres of formal gardens, green space, recreational facilities, walking loops, and the Pond House Café. Come enjoy the beauty of the gardens and grounds. Bring your camera!
What to do here
Visitors can enjoy the formal gardens, green spaces, picnic areas, and recreational facilities in Elizabeth Park. Also, at various times throughout the year, the Elizabeth Park Conservancy presents special events, outdoor concerts, tours, lectures and garden workshops in the Park—many of them free to the public. Dining is available at the Pond House Café.
How to get here
Elizabeth Park has several entrances: one on Prospect Avenue and another on Asylum Avenue near the Hartford-West Hartford line. The address of the Elizabeth Park Conservancy is 1561 Asylum Avenue, West Hartford, CT. Click below for directions.
Visiting hours
Elizabeth Park is open 365 days of the year, dawn to dusk, and is FREE to the public. There are no admission fees.
Support The Elizabeth Park Conservancy
The Elizabeth Park Conservancy is a nonprofit group that partners with the City of Hartford in, and contributes significantly to, the maintenance, preservation, and improvement of Elizabeth Park, with the Helen S Kaman Rose Garden as the centerpiece of these efforts. As a nonprofit, the Conservancy welcomes and relies on your support.
Upcoming Events
A New Light: Reimagining the Sue B. Hart Perennial Garden at Elizabeth Park
A New Light: Reimagining the Sue B. Hart Perennial Garden at Elizabeth Park
Join mother-daughter team Lisa Stamm Booher and Vanessa Booher Parsons as they detail their approach to rethinking the the newly renamed Sue B. Hart Perennial garden in Elizabeth Park, what steps they took to achieve the new look, and their inspiration then and now.
A Journey into the World of Peonies
A Journey into the World of Peonies
Daniel Furman of Cricket Hill Garden in Thomaston, CT will dive into the diverse world of peonies.
The Garden World of Jane Austen
The Garden World of Jane Austen
Learn about the flowers and gardens of Jane Austen’s world—from her personal cottage garden to the grand estates that she visited and wove into her novels.
Blooms from June to October
Blooms from July to October
Blooms early to mid-June
Scenic View
Peaks in late May; continues blooming into September
Blooms from early Spring to late Summer
June to September; peaks in late August
Tulips in early Spring
Blooms in Summer
